The internet will only expand, says web founder

The internet is only starting to expand and will continue to grow with new electronic devices and more international users, its inventors have said.

“The web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past,” said Tim Berners-Lee, one of the inventors of the world wide web, at a seminar this week.

“We will have more internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the internet,” the Google vice president said.

Berners-Lee also said that as more people access the internet, new technology will arise and that new types of businesses will evolve. Co-founder of the world wide web Vinton Cerf claimed that while just 23% of the global population uses the internet, that number will grow over the next few decades.

“We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily,” he said.